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Antonia is keeping track of the number of pages she reads. She started the school year having already read 95 pages her book, an

d she then reads 20 pages each day. The function for her total pages read is fx) -20x +95. What do fx) and x represent in Antonia's situation?

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vovikov84 [41]3 years ago

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It says that Antonia read 20 pages a day so the variable (x) attached to the number 20 would be "number of days".

f(x) represents how many pages in total Antonia has read.

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